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Nintendo Trademarks "The Last Story"

It's been revealed that Nintendo has registered the title "The Last Story" as a trademark in Japan.

The title is registered in English - which might not come as a massive shock, but Nintendo normally files its names in Japanese. Could this mean we're looking at an international release for the mysterious upcoming game?

Other than that though there's not much else to go on, so let's do some good old-fashioned speculation - maybe it's Super Mario Galaxy 2: The Last Story, or the rumoured Starfox game, or even a brand new IP altogether.

It's over to you, loyal readers - let’s hear your ideas. The more outlandish the better.

It might be a new console. It would continue the recent trend of oddball names like Wii, so the next one is a phrase: The Last Story.It's called the last because it'll be so good that no more consoles will be bought after it. And Nintendo has the test facilities in which they have tested it's success. So Nintendo is rady to take over the world with a new console that will end all consoles."Hi Mitch have you played TLS?""... I'm living it, go away..."

I don't think it can be for Zelda. They wouldn't put the words, "legend" and "story", in the same title (The Legend of Zelda: The Last Story). Those two words are synonyms and "story" is not as epic sounding as "legend".

"Final Fantasy""The Last Story"Final=LastFantasy=StoryI see an RPG like none has fathomed.. It will be a huge EPIC spanning all the franchise.. Think Super Smash Bros meets Final Fantasy..Mario wakes up to find that all the sprites have been removed from the Mushroom kingdom. He enters the pipe that usually leads to Luigi's Mansion but finds himself in a black room with a spotlight on something... He moves forward into the light and finds that from all 8 directions, heros that span the Galaxies enter a portal.. Link, Samus, Kid Icarus, Mario himslef, Kirby, Fox McCloud, Captain Falco and Starfy ... Thus the saga begins. On a quest of massive proportions... Sidescrolling mindbenders meet first person bow and arrow shooters. You must work together as a team to restore the planet and place all the sprites to their rightful homes... Saving princesses will only be a backdrop to a tale of unimaginable proportions. Get ready for the gaming event of the millenium. Thus enters The Last Story. Are you ready?

There simply can't be "The Last Story" with Mario. Nintendo will always make more Mario games. Like at the end of Sunshine, when Bowser Jr said, "Someday, when I grow up, I wanna fight that Mario again!" And he did - twice - in New Mario Bros DS and Galaxy Wii.

Poor Lumas - sucking themselves into a black hole to save the universe...

Back on topic, maybe "the last story" might refer to Metriod or Zelda? It certaintly can't be a Yoshi game, as this was the prequel to Mario Brothers...